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PHOTOGRAPHIG CAMERA'. No. 398,231. 5Patented Feb. 19, 1889.l

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UNITED STATES PATENT Urrieu.

LOLIS (lllEYrrl'iLIER, OF BROOKLYN, NEV YORK.

PHGTGRAPHIC CAMERA'.

SPECFCATOl-J forming partei Letters Patent No. 398,231, dated February 19, 1889. Application tiled August 9, 1888x Serial No. 282,304. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom 25 may concern:

Be it known that I, Lotus CHEVALLIER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookt lyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented. new and useful improvements in Photographie Cameras, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement applicable to photographie cameras, as set forth in the followin specification and claims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawi ings, in which- Figure l is a section of a camera along the line Fig. Fig. is a section along the g line y y, Fig. l. Fig. 3 a view similar to Fig. l, with parts in a. dillerent position from that shown in Fig. l. Fig. l is asect'ion along the line .a z, Fig.

Similar letters indieate correspomling parts.

In the drawings, the letter A indicates the camera-walls. An opening, ll, is intended for 4the adjustment or securing ol;l a lens in the usual way, so that the lens will properly proi duce an image in the camera. The rear of the camera can be closed by a suitable cover, C. The sightplate l), which is usually of ground glass, enables the operator to secure the properadj ustment torseeuring a sharplydefined image in the field occupied by the sight-plate in Fig. l. lhe sightei'ilate ismoyably mounted in the camera.

In the drawings shown ahinged rotating support or frame, lil, carrying the rigidly-attached sight-plate, and said support enables the sight-plate to be brought to the positions shown in Figs. l and 3 as desired.

The holder or box F for the sensitized plate or sheet is rigid on the hinged rotating frame F. in a position, as here shown, at right angles to the rigidly-attached sight-plate D, so that the sensitized-plate holder F andthe sightplate D move in unison-that is to say, when the hinged frame E is rotated to bring the t sensitized-plate holder F into the field, the sight-plate D moves out of the field. This@ result is effected by arranging the holder F i and the plate D rigid on the hinged or rotating frame E, so that, in fact, the sight-plate is swung downward out of the field of the lens by the swinging movement of the sensitized-plate holder F upward into the iield and conversely. In these respects my invention differs substantiallyT from sensitized plate i holders and a focusing-glass flexibly connected by Canvas to a rotary axle.

lt will of course be understood that the sensitized-plate holder F can be removed from the frame E, and by the terms rigid on said frame as regards the holder l mean that t when the holder is in place it is, as it were, f fixed part of the :frame in that it moves'in unison with said frame.

The plate-holder F and the sight-plate D are at right angles to each other, or substantially so, and, being rigid on the rotating frame, it follows thatwhen the plate-holder is vertical the sight-plate will be horizontal, or substantially so. It will be obvious, however, that it is not essential that the plate holder and sight-plate be fixed exactly at right angles to each other.

The box F is shown with aback, G,- and with two slides, H H. A sensitized. sheet or plate can be placed. on each side of the bael; G and covered by the slides H, and by then withdrawing the slide ll which is nearer to the opening il, Fig. f3, one of the sensitized plates can be exposed.- l-y then reversingthe box F, so as to bring the other slide lil. nearer to the opening B, and removing such other slide, the other sensitized plate can be exposed, The box F is readily removable from the support lil.

ln the drawings, the rotating lrameorsupport E is shown hinged on a tixed bearing. I, in the camera by a horizontal pivot-pin. By having a suitable handle, l, outside ot the camera the support E can be aetuatml without. opening the camera.

The sight-plate D and the sensitized plate to be exposed are so mounted in the camera that when the sight-plate and sensitized plate are moved from the position shown in Fig. l to the position shown in Fig. 3 the sensitized plate will come to rest in the same field occupied in Fig. l by the sight-plate D. Any image which has thus been sharply defined on the sight-plate will be sharply defined on the sensitized plate when the sensitized plate is moved to the position occupied in Fig. l by the sight-plate.

To the support E is secured a movable cover, L, which, when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. l, covers the sensitized plate. A spring, hl, tends to keep the cover L closed. lVhen the parts are moved to the IOO position shown in Fig. 3, the lug N of the cover L comes into contact with a lug-catch, O,so that said cover is moved or pressed into its open position. A set-screw, P, moving in a slot in the camera, can be made to adjust the lug O, so that when the parts are moved to the position shown in Fig. 3 the cover L will be automatically opened. If desired, the set-screw P can be moved forward, or toward 1o the opening B, in which case the cover L will remain closed when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 3, and will not be opened until said sct-screw,with the lug O, is moved toward the rear of the camera. Generally,

however, it may be more convenient to have the lug O adjusted as seen in Fig. 3, so that when the sensitized plate is moved int-o the field for photographing the cover L will automatically expose the sensitized plate.

2o A door, Q, at the side of the camera cnablcs the slide H to be withdrawn at the proper moment. A sight-opening, R, enables the operator to observe when the image on the sight-plate D is sharply defined. A shield or cover, S, enables the sight opening to be closed, Fig. 3, and said shield, when in the position shown in Fig. l, serves to shade the eyes of the operator, so that a clear sight of the plate D can be obtained through the opening R. Byhaving the shield S provided with a hood, T, ot suitable material-such asdark fabric the eyes of the operator can be efiectively shaded.

By placing the sight-opening R to the rear 3 5 of the sight-plate D, as seen in the drawings,

the sighting of the plate D will not be inte-rfered with by light entering through the opening B, as might be the case it the sight-opening R were placed in front of the sight-plate D.

4o A convenient way of operating the device is as follows: The parts being in the position shown in Fig. l,with the box F placed on the movable support E, the cover C is closed. lVhen the sight-plate D and the camera-*lens are in the proper relative position,which will be indicated by the image being seenthreugh the sight-opening R sharply defined on the sight-plate D, the shield Sis closed, Fig. 8. The handle K is then actuated to movethe 5o box F into position to enable a slide H to be withdrawn through the door Q, which is opened for this purpose. During the withdrawal of this slide the box F has notbeen moved so far forward as to cause the cover L to be opened.

lVhen the slide H has been withdrawn and the door Q closed, then at the moment theoperation of photographing is to commence the box F is brought so far forward as to cause the cover L to open, Fig. 3, thus bringing 6o the sensitized plate into the eld occupied in Fig. l by the sight-plate D. The sensitized plate is then exposed, and after having been exposed a sutficientperiod the box F is moved toward the rear oi' the camera, when the cover L closes over the sensitized plate. The removal of the box F from the camera is readily effected lby opening the cover C,

and the subsequent treatment ot the sensitized plate or sheet can be conducted in an y well-known suitable way.

By having the sight-plate and sensitized plate movably mounted in the camera, so that said plates can be actuated without bcing withdrawn from the camera and without its being necessary to open the camera, the process of photographing can be rapidly and conveniently accomplished.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The combination, with the case of a phetographic camera, of a rotating frame, E, located therein and provided with a handle outside the case for rotating the frame from the exterior, and a plate holder, F, and a sight plate, D, both rigid on the rotating frame and arranged substantially at right angles to each other, sol that by rotating the frame in one direction the sight-plate swings into the field to focus the object and the plate-holder swings out of' the field, and by rotating the frame in the opposite direction the sight-plate swings out et' the field and the plate-holder into the field, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the case of a phographic camera, ol' a swinging sensitizedplate holder, F, having a cover, L, hinged thereto and provided with a spring which normally holds the cover closed over a plate, and a lug or catch in the camera-case which acts on'the cover and automatically opens it when the plate-holder is swung into the field, substantially as described.

3. The combination, with the case of a photographic camera, ot' a pivoted swinging' sensitized-plate holder having a cover normally held closed over the plate, and a device inside the camera-trame which acts on the cover and automatically opens it when the holderis swung' in the arc et a circle into the field, substantially as described.

4. The combination, with a camera-case, ol' the pivoted swinging sensitized-plate holder F, the cover L, hinged to said holder and havling the projecting lug N, the spring M, acting to press the cover closed on the holder, and the catch() on the camera-case, arranged to strike the lug of the cover and open the latter when the holder is swung into the field, substantially as described.

5. A camera having a swinging sight-plate, D, a sight-opening, R, in its top wall between its rear end and the sight-plate, a hinged shield, S, adapted to stand upright, and the hood T, secured to the shield over the sightopening, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereoi I have hereunto set my hand and seal in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

, LOUIS CHEYALLIER. ['L. s] lVitn esses:

" W. C. HAUFF,

E. F. KASTENHUBER.

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